Flint v. Horsley

Citations

• 25 Wash. 648
• 66 P. 59
• 1901 Wash. LEXIS 445

Syllabus

<p>COUNTIES-BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS — POWERS-ESTABLISHMENT OF COUNTY ROADS.</p> <p>Under Bal. Code, §§ 3771-3782, prescribing the method of procedure for the establishment of roads by the county commissioners, and providing that a petition therefor must be presented by householders residing in the vicinity of the proposed road setting forth its terminal points, its course and width; that viewers shall be appointed to view, lay out and survey the same as nearly as practicable in accordance with the petition, and make report thereon to the board; that the board must thereupon order a hearing, of which notice must he given to those interested in the lands to he taken, and that the board shall thereafter declare “whether the road shall be established in accordance with the report of the viewers, or otherwise, or at all,” the county commissioners have no authority upon the hearing of an adverse report thereon by the viewers, to order the establishment of a road along another route and reaching a different terminal than the one viewed, surveyed and reported upon by the viewers.</p>